Milk-card holder.



E. I. MEYER. MILK-CARD HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1909.

Patented Jan.18,1910.

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EI-ILER 1i. MEYER, OF HINSDALE, ILLENU-IS.

MILK-CARD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed January 14, 1909.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

Serial N0. 472,253.

T all whom it may concern:

lie it known that l, Errnnn l hflnrnn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of llinsdale, in the county of Dupage and State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Card Holders; and 1 do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention. has general reference to improvements in card-holders; and it is especially d signed to hold milk-supply cards for keeping an account of the supply to a customer, of dairy products.

It consists, essentially of the novel and peculiar combination of parts'and details of construction as l ereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings already referred to, and which serve to illustrate this invention more fully, Figure 1 is a plan of this improved card holder. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 3 an edge-view, and Fig. -lis a tflansvcrse section of the device on line a; a; of Fig. 1.

Like parts are designated by correspond.- iug symbols of reference in all the figures.

The object of this invention is the production of a cheap, but very effective, service able, and convenient card-holder which shall. be. adjustable so to permit cards of difilerout widths being removablv retained therein.

in the drawings designates the backboard of this device. I prefer to produce this board in wood and provide therein and at its upper end a hole 11, by means of which the device may be hung up in any convenient place where access may be had to the same. Upon the face of this back-board I locate a sheet-metal plate 12, which plate has one of its two longitudinal sides 13, and its lower end 114, folded so as to prod ucc on said plate grooves 15, wherewith to engage a card 16, in conjunction with a slidablc plate 17, which plate 17 has one of its longitudinal sides folded at 18, for the object stated The plate l2 is permanently secured to the back-board 10 by means of wood-screws 19, and it is offset along a longitudinal line 20 that the slidable plate 17 may underlie the plate 12. In this slidable plate 17 there are slots 21, through which wood-screws 29,, assed through apertures in the fixed plate and the slots 21, enter the back-board 10 in such manner that the plate 1? may be moved laterally underneath the plate 1.2. lhe ob ject of making one member of the means for holding the card upon the back board movable is to permit cards of varying widths to be readily placed upon the cardholder.

The rard 16 has printed on its face certain lines and words constituting record-spaces wherein the delivery of, and payment for, merchandise delivered may be entered; and in order that the card may be easily removed from the holder when a new one is to be inserted therein, the upper end of the board is cut away at 28 and the edges thereof bev eled, as clearly illustrated in the figures at 24, so that the card, which is preferably somewhat longer than the plates may be conveniently rasped by its upper corners and pulled upwardly out of the grooves on the plates.

The plate 17 is provided with the slotholes 21 to permit said plate 17 being moved laterally to hold cards 16 of varying widths. These slots also prevent the plate 17 from being entirely pulled out from underneath the plate 12, the ends of the slots 21 when reaching the screws 22 preventing any further outward movement of said plate 17.

Having thus fully described this invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, an adjustable card holder comprising a wooden back-board, there being cut-outs at the upper end of said board, the edges of the cut outs being beveled; a fixed clamping-plate secured to the face of said back board, there being on one of the longitudinal sides of said plate a fold forming a retaining groove, and a like fold atltlie bottom;

and a slidable plate underlying the fixed clamping plate and secured to the back by wood-screws, said slidable plate having its outer edge folded to afford a groove, there being slotted apertures in said slid-able plate for the passage of said wood-screws.

2. In an adjustable card-holder, a backboard; a fixed clamping-plate secured there to, said plate having one of its longitudinal edges folded to afford a groove and its lower end likewise folded, there being a longitudinal offset in said plate; a movable clamping-member secured to said backboard and underlying said fixed plate, said movable In testimony that I claim the foregoing plate having one of its edges folded to afiord as my invention, I have hereunto set my 10 a groove, there being slots in said movable hand in the presence of two subscribing witplate and Wood-screws passing through said nesses. plates and engaging said back-board to prei EI-ILER F. MEYER. Vent the movable clamping plate from be- Attest: ing entirely withdrawn from underneath; MICHAEL J. STARK, said fixed clamping plate. 1 A. G. PETERSON. 

